After decades in government, the No. 2 diplomat in the Biden administration is retiring.
On May 12, Secretary Of State Antony Blinken announced the retirement of Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman.
Sherman, who has been engaged in some of the most significant and contentious foreign policy choices made by Democratic administrations since Bill Clinton was president, will leave her position this summer.
“It is with profound gratitude that I thank Wendy R. Sherman for her service to the department and the American people as deputy secretary of state,” Blinken said in a press release.
In a memo to the personnel of the State Department, Sherman, 73, announced that she would be retiring at the end of June….